A two-decade-long mixture of theatrical touring and activism, THISISPOPBABY will be in Galway for one night only on Tuesday, June 23, at the Town Hall Theatre.
Cork-born, London-reared cabaret star Emer Dineen’s show 0800-CUPID is a genre-defying queer, countercultural opus that fizzes between performance and reality.
By turns heartfelt and raucous, this electrifying show charts a musical march into - and back from - one young woman’s existential brink.
Dineen is a formidable talent - writer, actor, cabaret performer and house music vocalist. In 0800-CUPID, she collaborates with award-winning playwright and director Phillip McMahon on a bold, form-busting musical odyssey tracing one extraordinary year in her life.
With wit, candour and soaring vocals, Dineen gives voice to a jilted, chronically online generation, in a story that is at once universal, hilarious and deeply felt.
Sliding between fantasy and reality, the show takes audiences on a heady ride through a surreal chapter in Dineen’s life - navigating her father’s dementia diagnosis, her nightlife career in drag as crumbling club-kid ‘Cupid’ (a horny, cherub matchmaker ), and a Tourette’s diagnosis - all against the pulse of London’s club scene.
Amid the chaos of music, drag, a big relationship break-up and life’s curveballs, she searches for connection and meaning in the big city - finding answers where she least expects them.
This exhilarating music theatre experience explores identity, crisis and survival, charting a pilgrimage back from the brink through Dineen’s alter ego, ‘Cupid’. Featuring a live band and a cast of theatrical mavericks, the show unfolds as a high-octane queer party - capturing both the thrill and the quiet anxiety of being untethered in your twenties.
Tickets €22/€18 from www.THT.ie
